[sbopkg-discuss] Re: Sbopkg 0.0.9 released

[samac]

Thanks Robby worked a treat and point taken.

samac

On Aug 15, 3:48 pm, Robby Workman <rwork... at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> samac wrote:
> > Hi Chess and Robby
>
> > Using sbopkg has made working with SlackBuild.com so easy that it has
> > made building from source a pleasure rather than the usual grind.
>
> Good to hear :-)
>
> > Chess:
> > I have a quad processor machine, and am looking for an easy way to use
> > them all for compiling. Rather than have to modify each SlackBuild
> > script, I was wondering if sbopkg could tell the slackbuild script to
> > use "make -j5" rather than "make", or is this something that the user
> > would have to set up locally.
>
> In your shell init files, do this:
>
> MAKEFLAGS="-j5"
> export MAKEFLAGS
>
> > Robby:
> > I know that all the slackbuilds are checked before they are allowed on
> > SlackBuilds.com, but is there any mileage in creating an "unsafe" area
> > which would be a repository for all other slackbuilds which are out
> > there. This, when working with sbopkg, would give a vast increase in
> > the number of packages available to Slackware users, thus removing one
> > of the complaints that non slackers have about there not being any
> > packages for Slackware.
>
> In most cases, allowing access to the pending/ area would not offer
> a significant number of new applications - it's mostly just version
> updates
> and such usually.  Even so, the answer is an unequivocal NO.  We have
> no plans of making that area available to users.  While *you* may very
> well be fully capable of understanding the distinction, prior experience
> tells me that it's only a matter of time before someone would fail to do
> so, and then it would twisted around to reflect badly upon us.
>
> -RW
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